Translation of the second edition, which was completely updated and supplemented. Includes a CD-Rom with 351 colour photographs, summary tables on useful plants and keys to identification. The objective of this book is to describe a range of families of flowering plants in a sequence corresponding to current phylogenetic classification based on the most recent results of molecular systematics.
History of Botanical Classification; Species and Speciation; Flora and Vegetation; Algae and Angiosperms; Evolution and Classification of Seed Plants; Selected Orders and Families; Descriptive Plates of Families; Glossary; Key to Identification of Tropical Families by Observation of Vegetative Characters; Taxonomic Index